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(BROUGHAM, Henry NEW, Chester W.Life of Henry Brougham to 1830. 1st UK in djClarendon Press, Oxford , 1961, (BROUGHAM, Henry). NEW, Chester W. The Life of Henry Brougham to 1830. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1961. First Edition. Pp [i]-xi,(1),[1]-458,(2), frontis portrsit. Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Contents : 1. Childhood and Youth. 2. Barrister without Remuneration: the founding of the Edinburgh Review. 3. Crusading against the Slave Trade. 4. Whig orTory? 1804-7: Attack on the Orders in Council, 1808. 5. Rousing Byron: The Quarterly Review: Parliament at Last. 6. Repealing the Orders in Council: The Liverpool Election. 7. Adviser to the Princess of Wales. 8. The Two Princesses. 9. The Cause of the Slaves, 1807-20. 10. Political and Personal, 1812-15. 11. Political and Personal, 1816-19. 12. Schools for All, 1810-19. 13. The Queen's Trial. 14. Political and Personal, 1821-5. 15. Fighting to Free the Slaves, 1822-9. 16. Political and Personal, 1826-9. 17. The March of the Mind: Mechanics' Institutes. 18. Lord Rector of Glasgow: Society forthe Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: The Schoolmaster is Abroad. 19. Launchi ng London University, I. 20. Launching London University, II. 21. Law Reform Speech of 1828. 22. The Year 1730. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked inthe late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political conservatism, comments on technology, pacifism, Christian faith, and conservative views regarding abortion and is credited as one of Canada's most original thinkers. Grant was a faculty member at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., twice (1947-1960, 1980-1988). Very good in lightly nicked and browned, price-clipped dustjacket.. Ex-libris George P. Grant (without indication, but acquired from his estate). 50.00

ACORN, MiltonCaptain Neal MacDougal & The Naked Goddess : A Demi-Prophetic Work as a Sonnet-SeriesRagweed Press, Charlottetown, 1982, ISBN:0920304168 ACORN, Milton. Captain Neal MacDougal & The Naked Goddess : A Demi-Prophetic Work as a Sonnet-Series. Charlottetown : Ragweed Press, 1982. First Printing. Pp (6),7-52. 8vo, illustrated blue card covers with white lettering tofront cover, blank spine. Milton James Rhode Acorn (b. March 30, 1923, Cha rlottetown, Prince Edward Island. – d. August 20, 1986, Charlottetown), nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. "'Captain Neal MacDougal & The Naked Goddess' is an exploration inpoetry of the 'God is a Woman' theme, plus a celebration of his ancestor a nd mighty living spirit of the same name (it mustbe confessed) a largely fictional hero." - from the rear cover. Includes : "History", "John MacDougal's War", "The Record Run", "Revery at The Wheel", "Miracle with One Witness", "MacDougal's Theory of Dreams", "The Smuggler's Coast", "Politics according to MacDougal", "Close to a Ramming", "MacDougal's Armed Truce with Booze", "MacDougal Orders Breakfast" and others. Name, else very good. Due to its small size, shipping costs should be cheaper than quoted. 20.00

ACORN, Milton. DEAHL, James. NEKLER, Gilda.Stand of Jackpine : Two Dozen Canadian Sonnets.Unfinished Monuments Press, Toronto, 1987, ISBN:092097631x ACORN, Milton and James DEAHL. A Stand of Jackpine : Two Dozen Canadian Sonnets. Art by Gilda Nekler. Toronto: Unfinished Monuments Press, 1987. Pp (8),[1]-30,(2). 8vo, stapled illustrated greyish wrappers with red lettering to front cover. "The jackpine sonnet: an irregular sonnet of 13 or 17 (or even 14) lines. This 20th cetury form retains the pithy, expressive qualities of the traditional sonnet; but, freed from rhyme and lockstep metre, it takes on a loose and rangy vitality. Here are 12 jackpine sonnets by the manwho named the form: Milton Acorn, the Peoples' Poet. And 12 more by James Deahl, who learned the foprm from Acorn and brings his own voice to it. These 24 poems touch on love, politics, history: the spirit of nations, places, people and gods. They belong to a Canadian tradition which stretches backto Lampman and forward to a new generation of poets." -from the rear cover . Very good. Due to its small size, shipping costs should be cheaper than quoted. 15.00

AGNEW, VijayResisting Discrimination : Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the Women's Movement in CanadaUniversity of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996, ISBN:0802006744 AGNEW, Vijay. Resisting Discrimination : Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the Women's Movement in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (1996). First Printing. Pp. (6),[vii]-x,(2),[3]-292,(2). 8vo, greycloth with metallic purple lettering to front and spine. "In her introduct ion to 'Resisting Discrimination', Vijay Agnew quotes Keibo Oiwa: 'We rarely encounter accounts of what the persecuted themselves felt, thought, wished to do, and actually did or failed to do; what meanings they attached to their thoughts and actions.' As Agnew observes, there is little Canadian feminist literature, from a minority perspective, on racism in feminist practice. 'Resisting Discrimination' is ground-breaking book. Focusing on the experiences of women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, the volume exploresthe realities of race, class, and gender discrimination in twentieth-centu ry Canada. Agnew uses an integrated approach, adopting methodologies from political science, hiostory, sociology, and women's studies to investigate history and politics of Asian and black women throughout this century and the exclusion of these women from theory and practice of mainstream feminism.She also looks at the relationship between the state and community-based o rganizations of immigrant women, and the struggles of these women to provide social services to non-English-speaking working-class women through theircommunity-based organizations. Agnew's views are critical of white feminis t theories and practices. Her goal is to sensitize the reader to another perspective and to empower minority women by making them the subject of theirown recent history and politics. She seeks to open up the possibility of f uller cooperation among feminists across lines of race and class, and to suggest new lines of development for feminist theories and methodologies." - from the introductory blurb. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Experience of Race and Gender Discrimination; 3. Race, Class, and Feminist Theory; 4. Race, Class, and Feminist Practice; 5. The Politics of Discourse; 6. Systemic Racism; 7. Women's Community Organizations; 8. Immigrant Women and the State; 9. Immigrant Women and Wife Abuse; 10. Conclusion. Very good. 25.00

ALBRIGHT, Madeleine WOODWARD, BillMadam Secretary : A Memoir. First Printing in dustjacket. signedMiramax Books, New York, 2003, ISBN:0786868430 ALBRIGHT, Madeleine. Madam Secretary : A Memoir. With Bill Woodward. (New York) : Miramax Books, (2003). First Printing. Pp (6),vii-xiv,(2),3-562,+ 32pp plates. Text Illustrations. Index. 8vo, black cloth spine, grey paper c overed boards, silver lettering to spine. Contents : Part One - From Madlenka to Madeleine Albright : 1. Heroes & Villains. . Becoming an American. 3.Best of all possible worlds. 4. Family values. 5. Mrs. Albright goes to Wa shington. 6. From pole to pole. 7. 'Til death do us part. 8. The Velvet Revolution. Part Two - Fourteen Suits and a Skirt : 9. A sign saying simply "United States." 10. New World (dis)order. 11. Frequent flyer. 12. Horror in the Balkans. 13. The strength of my own voice. Part Three - Madam Secretary: 14. "I want you to be my Secretary of State." 15. Names on the synagogue wall. 16. Building a Europe whole and free. 17. Migraine Hussein.; 18. Wel come to the Middle East. 19. Palestinians and Israelis coming together. 20.Dueling with dictators. 21. As the world turns. Part Four - Waging War, Pu rsuing Peace : 22. A special kind of evil. 23. Milosevic is the problem. 24. Kosovo: diplomacy and the threat of force. 25. The alliance prevails. 26.Freedom and order in the global era. 27. Inside the hermit kingdom. 28. Th e fruitless quest. 29. Had we but world enough and time. Selected Chronology. Official international travel. Very good in unclipped dustjacket. Signedwith inscription by the author. With a Democrats Abroad Canada Luncheon in vitation / menu card laid in. The inscription was to an attendee of that luncheon and was dated on that day. 25.00

ALSON, Sandra, (ed.) MacKENZIE, William Ord BLACKSTOCK, Cicely , (ed.)Another World : William Ord Mackenzie’s Sojourn in the Canadas, 1839 - 18432015, ALSON, Sandra and Cicely BLACKSTOCK, (eds.). ‘Another World’ : William Ord Mackenzie’s Sojourn in the Canadas, 1839 - 1843. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 2015. Pp (14),[xv]-lvi,(13),14-645,(9). Illustrated. Maps. Index. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped Champlain Society sealon front board. "William Ord Mackenzie, a recently graduated British army surgeon, describes for his friends and family back home his life in his first posting to ‘another world’: the Canadas, in the period just after the Rebellions. Opinionated, frank, sometimes arrogant and prejudiced, but alwayscurious, Mackenzie details for his readers the social and political affair s of the colonies over five years. He serves in the major cities ? Toronto,Kingston, Montreal and Quebec? and witnesses cultural events, social affai rs, sports, and theatrical performances. He is also posted to smaller garrisons ? Rivière-du-Loup, Chambly and the frontier post of Fort Ingall near the American border, and writes, sometimes despairingly, about their conditions. As a well-connected Scot, Mackenzie has entrée into the highest society of the colony, dining with lieutenant-governors, prominent businessmen, writers and politicians, but he also finds himself in the homes of ordinary Canadians in rural settings, enjoying the dances, weddings, sleighing and snowshoeing that helped to alleviate the boredom of service in a peacetime army. Politics, food, natural history, geography, the weather, local gossip and pretty girls all form part of his journals, as does a detailed account of his reading, in newspapers, journals and books. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and detailed maps and sketches of cities and army posts, thislittle-known journal makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding of a young country ? Canada in embryo following a time of grave troubles. It explores a place slowly and painfully healing from the conflict and divisions brought by rebellion but preparing to take the first shaky and uncertain steps towards a truly united nation. Contents : Ilustrations and Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Note; Journals; [Journal,Volume I]; Description of a Sojourn in Another World, Volume II, Toronto, U.C. 1839; Journal of a Sojourn in Another World! Volume III, Rivière-du-Loup, 1840; Journal of a Scribbler in Another World, Volume IV, Quebec, 1841;Journal of an Officer in Canada, Volume V, Chambly, C.-E., 1843; Appendix: William Ord Mackenzie's Reading; Selected Bibliography. ADDITIONAL SHIPPIN G CHARGES WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ORDERS OUTSIDE CANADA DUE TO ITS WEIGHT. Very good. 50.00

ANDERSON, Grace M. and David HIGGS Generations : A History of Canada's Peoples HIGGS, DavidFuture to Inherit : Portuguese Communities in Canada.. card coversMcClelland and Stewart / Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, Toronto, 1976, ANDERSON, Grace M. and David HIGGS. A Future to Inherit : Portuguese Communities in Canada. (Toronto) : "Published by McClelland and Stewart in association with the Multiculturalism Program, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada and the Publishing Centre, Supply and Services, Canada", (1976). Pp (16),3-202. Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. Spadoni and Donnelly 2708.In the Generations : A History of Canada's Peoples series. Chapters : 1. T he Early Portuguese Maritime Contacts with Canada; 2. Portuguese Migration to Canada; 3. Growth of the Portuguese-Canadian Communities; 4. Settlementsin Eastern and Central Canada; 5. Settlements in Western Canada; 6. The Fa mily; 7. Education; 8. The Church; 9. Social and Community Organizations; 10. Newspapers and Politics; 11. Cultural Identity; 12. Conclusions. With bibliography and index. "... authors [...] have employed historical research and personal interviews to define the shape of Portuguese-Canadian life in its varied aspects - social, educational, religious and folkloric. A group in a state of rapid change, the Portuguese-Canadians are contributing to Canada's expanding economy as labourers, merchants, small business owners andprofessionals. They have settled in a large number of communities from Vic toria to St. John's, from Kitimat to Winnipeg, and various reasons for choice of locale are outlined in this study." - from the dj of the hardcover edition. References to Newfoundland, Labrador, and St.John's in the index. Very good. 15.00

ANDERSON, Grace M. and David HIGGS Generations : A History of Canada's Peoples HIGGS, DavidFuture to Inherit : Portuguese Communities in Canada.. hardcover in djMcClelland and Stewart / Department of the Secretary of State of Canada, Toronto, 1976, ANDERSON, Grace M. and David HIGGS. A Future to Inherit : Portuguese Communities in Canada. (Toronto) : "Published by McClelland and Stewart in association with the Multiculturalism Program, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada and the Publishing Centre, Supply and Services, Canada", (1976). Pp (16),3-202. Illustrated. 8vo, brown cloth. Spadoni and Donnelly 2708.In the Generations : A History of Canada's Peoples series. Chapters : 1. T he Early Portuguese Maritime Contacts with Canada; 2. Portuguese Migration to Canada; 3. Growth of the Portuguese-Canadian Communities; 4. Settlementsin Eastern and Central Canada; 5. Settlements in Western Canada; 6. The Fa mily; 7. Education; 8. The Church; 9. Social and Community Organizations; 10. Newspapers and Politics; 11. Cultural Identity; 12. Conclusions. With bibliography and index. "... authors [...] have employed historical research and personal interviews to define the shape of Portuguese-Canadian life in its varied aspects - social, educational, religious and folkloric. A group in a state of rapid change, the Portuguese-Canadians are contributing to Canada's expanding economy as labourers, merchants, small business owners andprofessionals. They have settled in a large number of communities from Vic toria to St. John's, from Kitimat to Winnipeg, and various reasons for choice of locale are outlined in this study." - from the dj. References to Newfoundland, Labrador, and St.John's in the index. Very good in dustjacket. 25.00

ANDREW, Arthur.Defence by Other Means : diplomacy for the underdog.Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1970, ANDREW, Arthur. Defence by Other Means : diplomacy for the underdog. (Toronto) : Canadian Institute of International Affairs, (1970). Pp [i]-ix,(3),[1]-126,(6). 8vo, blue card covers. “Most of the established writers on diplomacy have done their work from the viewpoint of the great power, the leaderin world affairs. This book is a look at the substantially different diplo macy practised by smaller countries whose concern is first to survive and then to thrive in a world largely ordered by the great powers. Often more objects than operators of world politics, the author seeks to describe how international relations seem to the smaller powers, and to offer some impressions on how these countries devise their foreign policies and apply their diplomacies.” - from the back cover. Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Arthur Andrew has served as a diplomat in Canadian missions in Bonn, Berlin, Vienna and Prague, has been ambassador to Israel and high commissioner to Cyprus, and later ambassador to Sweden, during which time he inaugurated Canada's negotiations with the People's Republic of China. Covers rubbed and slightly foxed, else very good. Signed with inscription by the author. Due to its small size, shipping costs should be a bit cheaper than quoted. 30.00

ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. RODGERS, Sanda, ed.Women and the Canadian State / Les femmes et l'Etat canadien. First Edition, hardcover.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1997, ISBN:0773514236 ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. Women and the Canadian State / Lesfemmes et l'État canadien . Edited by Caroline Andrew and Sanda Rodgers. M ontreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1997). First Edition. Pp. (4),[v]-xxvii,(1),[1]-364. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Contents: 1. Lorenne M.G. Clark's "Reminiscences and Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Commission's Report"; 2. Monique Begin's "The Canadian Government and the Commission's Report"; 3. Freda L. Paltiel's "State Initiatives: Impetus and Effects"; 4. Catherine Frazee's "Do State Initiatives Make a Difference?"; 5. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafrond's "Patriarchy and Paternalism: The Legacy of the Canadian State for First Nations Women"; 6. Wendy Moss's "The Canadian State and Indian Women: The Struggle for Sex Equality Under the Indian Act"; 7. Teressa Anne Nahanee's "IndianWomen, Sex Equality, and the Charter"; 8. Mary Jane Mossman's "Families an d Family Law": 9. Carol Smart's "Feminist Interventions and State Policy"; 10. Nancy Sullivan's "Pay Equity in Manitoba"; 11. Pat Armstrong's "Pay Equity: Not Just a Matter of Money"; 12. Marie Murphy's "Pay Equity in Quebec"; 13. Diane Lamoureux's "Les services féministes - de l'antiétatisme à l'intégration subsidiaire"; 14. Jane Ursel's "Considering the Impact of the Battered Women's Movement on the State: The Example of Manitoba"; 15. Martha Flaherty's "Inuit Women and Violence"; 16. Florence Bird's "Reminiscences ofthe Commission Chair"; 17. Maureen O'Neil and Sharon Sutherland's "The Mac hinery of Women's Policy: Implementing the RCSW"; 18. Naomi Alboim's "Institutional Structure as Change Agent: An Analysis of the Ontario Women's Directorate"; 19. Marie Lavigne's "Structures institutionnelles en condition féminine - le cas du Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec"; 20. Nitya Iyer's "Disappearing Women: Racial-Minority Women in Human Rights Cases"; 21. Joanne St. Lewis's "The Entire Woman: Immigrant and Visible-Minority Women";22. Maria de Koninck's "Les femmes et l'État - questions de santé reproduc tive"; 23. Dyane Adam's "L'État et les groupes de femmes: un partenariat pour le meilleur ... our pour le pire?"; 24. Jane Jenson's "Competing Representations: The Politics of Abortion in Canada"; 25. Claire Bonenfant's "Les femmes et l'État canadien". "Canadians Can No Longer Expect As Much From Their Governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit.The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms. The welfare state employs women to deliver services such as childcare, home-help, nursing, and social work. In turn, these services have meant that women can enter the paid labour force, provide for dependants, and leave abusive relationships. Access to political resources have helped women to form solidarities, alliances, and organizations. In Women and the Canadian Welfare State, scholars from environmental studies, law, social work, sociology, and economics explore the changing relationship between women and the welfare state. They examine the transformation of the welfare state and itsimplications for women; key issues in welfare state debates such as social rights, family and dependency, and gender-neutral programs and inequality; women's work and the state; and the role of women as agents of change.Wome n and the Canadian Welfare State explains not only how women are affected by changes in policy and programming, but how they can take an active role in shaping these changes. It bridges an important gap for scholars and students who are interested in gender, public policy, and the welfare state." Very good. 40.00

ANGUS, James T.Respectable Ditch : A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920. First Edition in dustjacket.McGill-Queen's, Montreal and kingston, 1988, ISBN:0773505970 ANGUS, James T. A Respectable Ditch : A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920. Kingston / Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (1988).First Printing. Pp. (5),[vi]-xiv,(2),3-455,(3), including plates. Illustra ted in black and white. 8vo, decorated brown cloth with black lettering to spine. "In some respects the history of the Trent-Severn Waterway resemblesthe history of Canada. One parallels the other. The same political and eco nomic tensions that have constantly beset the country can be identified in the canal's story: defence against American invasion, free trade versus tariff protection, private enterprise or government intervention, the problem of moving vast quantities of grain from the central plains to deep-water ports, freight rates, energy production and who should control it, and the obsessive preoccupation with federal and provincial responsibilities. What follows is a record of how these national questions affected the development of a waterway that the country could ill afford and only a handful of people wanted. Consequently, this is not a story about transportation or engineering. It is a book about politics -- the politics of dreamers." - from the dustjacket. Contents: I: The Colonial Years, 1833-41: 1. James Bethune's Waterway; 2. The Bobcaygeon Lock; 3. The Question of Routes; 4. Improvements on the Inland Waters; 5. Improvements on the River Trent; 6. Stoppage of the Works. II: The Union Years, 1841-67: 7. Hamilton Killaly and the Board ofWorks; 8. The Timber Slides; 9. The Lumbermen's Committee; 10. The Union L ocks. III: The Macdonald Years, 1867-96: 11. The Ontario Locks; 12. A Crucial Debate; 13. A Barge Canal; 14. Buckhorn, Burleigh, and Fenelon Falls; 15. Tom S. Rubidge; 16. The Trent Valley Canal Commission. IV: The Laurier Years, 1986-1911: 17. The Conversion of Wilfrid Laurier; 18. The Peterborough-Lakefield Division; 19. The Hydraulic Lift Lock; 20. The Simcoe-Balsam Lake Division; 21. R.B. Rogers; 22. Mulock's Madness; 23. Hydroelectric Power and the Port Hope Canal; 24. The Ontario-Rice Lake Division; 25. Kerry and Culverwell. V: The Borden Years, 1911-20: 26. The Western Outlet; 27. The Port Severn Lock; 28. The Marine Railways; 29. The Couchiching Lock. With bibliography and index. Very good in crisp dustjacket. 25.00

Annual Register BURKE, EdmundAnnual Register or a View of the History, Politicks Politics and Literaturefor the Years : 1758 to 1808Dodsley and others, London, 1758, Annual Register . Annual Register or a View of the History, Politicks / Politics and Literature for the Year. London The Annual Register (originally subtitled "A View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year ... ") is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year’s major events, developments and trends throughout the world. It was first written in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke. This collection contains much on the wars and revolutions of the eighteenth century, as well as chronicling development in most spheres of endeavour. "The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley. On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day. Born in Ireland, Burke had trained as a lawyer before abandoning this field and turning to writing. He was an up-and-coming member of the intelligentsia and had already written several notable works, published by Dodsley. According to his contract with Dodsley, Burke was paid £100 per annum as editor of The Annual Register. In its original form, The Annual Register comprised a long historical essay on the “History of the Present War” (the Seven Years' War 1756–63), a Chronology, which gave an account of interesting and noteworthy events in Britain over the previous year, and a collection of “State Papers”, a miscellany of primary source material which included official documents, speeches,letters and accounts. In his preface to the 1758 volume Burke noted the difficulties he had faced in writing the history section of the book. Taking the “broken and unconnected materials” and creating from them “one connected narrative” had been, he commented, “a work of more labour than may at first appear”. Nevertheless, his perseverance and skill as an historian meant that by the time of its publication the first volume of The Annual Register contained a unique, contemporaneous account of the war, analysing its origins and development with a perspective not readily available at the time in newspapers or magazines. As a result the book sold widely, with the first volume going through five editions in its first 10 years. Given the conventions of the day, within which journalism was seen as a disreputable profession for a gentleman, Burke was publicly reticent about his connection with The Annual Register. However, his biographers are in agreement that Burke wrote and edited the book single-handedly until 1765 when he entered Parliament. From this time Thomas English was closely involved in writing the book and is regarded by some authorities as having taken over the editorship from Burke in that year. Scholars are divided on the question of Burke’s association with the book thereafter, although many suggest that he continued to contribute to the history section and that he played a significant role in overseeing The Annual Register’s compilation until the 1790s, even though much of the editorial work by this stage was being done by others."

See William B. Todd's A Bibliography of Edmund Burke, (2nd ed., 1982) pp.45-68, for Burke’s involvement with the Annual Register.

1. [...] for the Year 1758.Second Edition, 1761. 2. [...] for the Year 1759. Fifth Edition, 1769. 3. [...] for the Year 1760. Fourth Edition, 1767. 4. [...] for the Year 1761. Third Edition, 1772. 5. [...] for the Year 1762. Second Edition, 1766.

6. [...] for the Year 1763. Third Edition, 1768. Has four folding maps including "New Map of the British Dominions in North America" by Kitchin. The first map showing Canada and Florida as parts of the British Empire.

7. [...] for the Year 1764. First Edition, 1765. 8. [...] for the Year 1765. First Edition, 1766. 9. [...] for the Year 1766. Second Edition, 1772. 10. [...] for the Year 1767. Second Edition, 1772. 11. [...] for the Year 1768. First Edition, 1768. 12. [...] for the Year 1769. First Edition, 1770. 13. [...] for the Year 1770. First Edition, 1771. 14. [...] for the Year 1771. First Edition, 1772. 15. [...] for the Year 1772. Third Edition, 1780. 16. [...] for the Year 1773. Third Edition, 1780. 17. [...] for the Year 1774. Second Edition, 1778. 18. [...] for the Year 1775. Third Edition, 1780.

19. [...] for the Year 1776. First Edition, 1777. Importantly this volume of the Annual Register is a first edition as the American Declaration of Independence appears here on pp.261-270, said to be its earliest printing in book form. It is in a section on State Papers, headed "Reasons assigned by the Continental Congress, for the North-American Colonies and Provinces withdrawing their allegiance to the King of Great-Britain."

20. [...] for the Year 1777. Fifth Edition, 1805. 21. [...] for the Year 1778. Third Edition, 1786. 22. [...] for the Year 1779. Fourth Edition, 1802. 23. [...] for the Year 1780. First Edition, 1781. 24. [...] for the Year 1781. Third Edition, 1800. 25. [...] for the Year 1782. Third Edition, 1800. 26. [...] for the Year 1783. Second Edition, 1800. 27. [...] for the Year 1784 and 1785. Second Edition, 1800. 28. [...] for the Year 1786. First Edition, 1788. 29. [...] for the Year 1787. Second Edition, 1789. 30. [...] for the Year 1788. Second Edition,1790. 31. [...] for the Year 1789. First Edition, 1792. 32. [...] for the Year 1790. ? Edition, . 33. [...] for the Year 1791. First Edition ?, n.d. 34. [...] for the Year 1792. First Edition ?, 1799 35. [...] for the Year 1793. First Edition ?, n.d. 36. [...] for the Year 1794. Second Edition, 1806. 38. [...] for the Year 1796. First Edition, 1800. 39. [...] for the Year 1797. Second Edition, 1807. 40. [...] for the Year 1798. Second Edition, 1 806. 41. [...] for the Year 1799. First Edition, 1801. 42. [...] for the Year 1800. First Edition, 1801. 43. [...] for the Year 1801. First Edition, 1802. 44. [...] for the Year 1802. First Edition, 1803. 45. [...] for the Year 1803. First Edition, 1805. 46. [...] for the Year 1804. First Edition, 1806. 47. [...] for the Year 1805. First Edition, 1807. 48. [...] for the Year 1806. First Edition, 1808. 50. [...] for the Year 1808. First Edition, 1810.

With Index volume for 1758-1780, First Edition, 1783. All but four are leather bound, some with leather boards, some not. A few have loose boards , one is missing boards, title page and first two pages. Wear to sides of some volumes. Vols 23,31,41 - modern buckram.